London vii Bombay, 30th August.
The Conference has arrived at a complete agreement, all questions are decided, and it will now proceed to the elaboration of the treaty.
Japan has yielded all the -outstanding questions, She has accepted the Russian proposal that there shall be no indemnity.. Saghalien will be divided without any payment of redemption' money.
Japan has withdrawn Articles X and XI in the original peace proposals, regarding the surrender of the interned warships, and-the limitation of the Russian naval power in the Far East.
An. armistice will probably be arranged this afternoon.
The: news of the agreement has spread like wildfire, and caused the most intense excitement in. New York and London, and' the magnanimity of Japan has produced a profound impression.—Reuter.
Later.
Some correspondents assert that there is a secret under st nding regarding the reimbursement of Japan's war expenses, which is omitted from the treaty with the view of sparing the susceptibilities of the Czar; but the Japanese officials at Portsmouth declare that Japan receives only the actual cost of the maintenance of the prisoners.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.